It is to be distinguished from the term accuracy, which refers to how close you come to the outcome in either direction.

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The days when the Twitter mood fell in the calmness category, they found with 87.5% accuracy that they could predict whether the market would close up or down between 2 and 6 days after a calmness reading was logged on Twitter.

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Neither keyboard compares to a traditional laptop in terms of accuracy, ease of use, and comfort but they are close enough to be functional.

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